A search for thresholds and other nonlinearities in the relationship between hexavalent chromium and lung cancer

Risk Analysis

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 79-88

  Park, Robert M ^a   Stayner, Leslie T ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Burden; Dose rate; Nonlinear exposure response; Threshold; Two stage

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGENS; CHROMIUM COMPOUNDS; POISSON RATIO; POLYNOMIALS; PULMONARY DISEASES; STATISTICAL METHODS; TUMORS;

DOSE RATE; LUNG CANCER; NONLINEAR EXPOSURE RESPONSE; THRESHOLD; TWO-STAGE;

CONTROL NONLINEARITIES;

CHROMIUM; OXYGEN;

CANCER;

ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEATH; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSIMETRY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HALF LIFE TIME; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WORKER;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; BALTIMORE; CARCINOGENS; CHROMIUM; COCARCINOGENESIS; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33645106173     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2006.00709.x     Document Type: Article

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